Coinage and identity in the Roman Provinces / edited by Christopher Howgego, Volker Heuchert, Andrew Burnett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Howgego, C. J.

Heuchert, Volker.

Burnett, Andrew (Andrew M.)

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Rome--Provinces.

Group identity.

Coins, Roman--Rome--Provinces.

Coins, Roman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 228 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities. This work investigates this subject by producing a collection of essays, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300.

Contents:

Contents; The Contributors; List of Maps; Abbreviations; 1. Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces; 2. Aspects of Identity; 3. The Chronological Development of Roman Provincial Coin Iconography; 4. The Cities and their Money; 5. Coinage and Identity in Pre-conquest Britain: 50 BC-AD 50; 6. Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces: Spain; 7. 'Belonging' to Rome, 'Remaining' Greek: Coinage and Identity in Roman Macedonia; 8. Religious-Cultural Identity in Thrace and Moesia Inferior; 9. Local Mythologies in the Greek East

10. Festivals and Games in the Cities of the East during the Roman Empire 11. Pergamum as Paradigm; 12. Information, Legitimation, or Self-Legitimation? Popular and Elite Designs on the Coin Types of Syria; 13. City Eras on Palestinian Coinage; 14. Coinage and Identity: The Jewish Evidence; 15. The Nome Coins of Roman Egypt; 16. The Roman West and the Roman East; References; Geographical Index; General Index; Key to Plates; Plates

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611341664

9780191917561

0191917567

9781281341662

1281341665

9780191555947

0191555940

OCLC:

466433957